Which to use
“éveillé” and “éveillée” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #14,835
- “éveillé” frequency rank
- #30,037
- “éveillée” frequency rank
- 44872
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | éveillé | éveillée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Qui a cessé de dormir, qu'on a tiré du sommeil. | Féminin singulier de éveillé. |
Same sound, different letters: éveillé vs éveillée
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 7 letters. éveillé runs 7 letters (VCVVCCV) against éveillée's 8 (VCVVCCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - éveillé and éveillée
This is the hard kind. éveillé and éveillée are pronounced identically (\e.vɛ.je\) and both work as anadjective. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “éveillé” sits inside “éveillée”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 44872, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
éveillé is recorded at frequency rank #14,835, classified as anadj, pronounced \e.vɛ.je\. éveillée is at rank #30,037, tagged as anadj, pronounced \e.vɛ.je\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 44872, this pair ranks #207,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of éveillé vs éveillée
Shared letters: eilvé. Private to "éveillé": -. Private to "éveillée": -.
"éveillé" · 7 letters · shape VCVVCCV · "éveillée" · 8 letters · shape VCVVCCVV
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "éveillé" for "éveillée" ever safe?
Frequency check: "éveillé" vs "éveillée" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "éveillé" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "éveillée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #207,142 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "éveillé" and "éveillée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "émaillée vs éveillée". Nearby pair
Confusion rank #207,142 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.